Why does 'InputField' not contain a definition for 'text'? - authentication

Question

I'm currently working on a Unity project for a college assignment, and I'm currently trying to connect a login/registration through PlayFab into a teammate's main menu for the game.
I've connected the PlayFabManager.cs script to the Input Fields for the email and password in the Unity editor, and something about my InputFields.cs file is preventing me from making any more progress.
I had to change the passwordInput and emailInput variables to TMP_InputField variables to achieve this, but now I am getting a compilation error in my project that says the following:
Assets\Scripts\InputField.cs(13,24): error CS1061: 'InputField' does not contain a definition for 'text' and no accessible extension method 'text' accepting a first argument of type 'InputField' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
Most places I look have people not including the "using UnityEngine.UI;" header at the top of the file, but that's included in my InputField.cs file.
Here's the code for my InputField.cs file:
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine.UI; // Required when Using UI elements.
public class InputField : MonoBehaviour
{
public InputField mainInputField;
public void Start()
{
mainInputField.text = "Enter text here...";
}
}
Here's the code for my PlayFabManager.cs file:
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using PlayFab;
using PlayFab.ClientModels;
using Newtonsoft.Json;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using TMPro; // Needed for login input fields
public class PlayFabManager : MonoBehaviour
{
[Header("UI)")]
public Text messageText;
public TMP_InputField emailInput;
public TMP_InputField passwordInput;
// Register/Login/ResetPassword
public void RegisterButton() {
var request = new RegisterPlayFabUserRequest {
Email = emailInput.text,
Password = passwordInput.text,
RequireBothUsernameAndEmail = false
};
PlayFabClientAPI.RegisterPlayFabUser(request, OnRegisterSuccess, OnError);
}
void OnRegisterSuccess(RegisterPlayFabUserResult result) {
messageText.text = "Registered and Logged in";
}
public void LoginButton() {
}
// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start() {
Login();
}
// Update is called once per frame
void Login() {
var request = new LoginWithCustomIDRequest {
CustomId = SystemInfo.deviceUniqueIdentifier,
CreateAccount = true
};
PlayFabClientAPI.LoginWithCustomID(request, OnSuccess, OnError);
}
void OnSuccess(LoginResult result) {
Debug.Log("Successful login/account create.");
}
void OnError(PlayFabError error) {
Debug.Log("Error while loggin in/creating account.");
Debug.Log(error.GenerateErrorReport());
}
}
I would just remove the InputField.cs class as it fixes my errors, but it changes the functionality of the following code that my teammate has contributed:
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;
public class MenuControl : MonoBehaviour
{
public string newGameLevel;
public void NewUser() {
SceneManager.LoadScene(newGameLevel);
}
public void ExitButton() {
Application.Quit();
}
}
Any help would be much appreciated!

Answer 1

Wanted to provide the solution in case this happens to anyone in the future:
I solved the problem by changing the
public InputField mainInputField;
into an input variable that could receive the TMP_Imput like so: public TMPro.TMP_InputField mainInputField;